A shortage of tomatoes from weather-battered Florida is forcing
restaurants and supermarkets to ration supplies amid soaring prices.

Fast-food chains such as Wendy's have stopped automatically including
tomatoes in sandwiches; now customers have to know to ask.

Even then, consumers might not get what they usually do. At Lloyd's, a
white-tablecloth restaurant across from the Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, signs went up this week warning that only plum tomatoes are
available.

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